A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Padong in Philippines. The temblor was reported at 19:37:21 / 7:37 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 05/12/25 / 2025-12-05 19:37:21 / December 5, 2025 @ 7:37 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us6000rstk. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rstk. Exact location of event, longitude 120.7602 East, latitude 18.0409 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tabuk, Magapit, Aguiguican, Magapit (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 25 km (15 miles) from Laoag (c. 102 100 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Batac City (c. 53 500 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Vigan (c. 48 500 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from San Nicolas (c. 34 200 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Tabuk (c. 27 000 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Magapit, Aguiguican (c. 13 700 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Magapit (c. 11 200 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 1 km SSE of Padong, Philippines.
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